Long Strange Trip hosted by Brian Halligan

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

Episode

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In the opening of the "Long Strange Trip" podcast, HubSpot co‑founder and longtime CEO Brian Halligan explains why the traditional CEO playbook feels outdated, citing examples from Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Brian Chesky. He expresses his fascination with how modern leaders are redefining the role and states his mission: to help startup founders evolve into scale‑up CEOs. Halligan outlines the podcast’s format—interviewing friends at various stages of growth, from early‑stage founders like Anton, to scaling leaders like Parker, and executives of large firms such as David Solomon of Goldman Sachs—inviting listeners to join the conversation about leadership transformation.

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Hey, I'm Brian Halligan, co founder of HubSpot and it's long time CEO. The CEO playbook I grew up with seems like it's getting torn up. Everyone from Elon and how he runs his empire, to Jensen in his 60 direct reports to Brian Chesky in his founder mode, Everything is sort of being rethought from scratch. I'm fascinated with this. I'm fascinated with thinking about how do I help startup founders turn into SC scale up CEOs. So I started this podcast. Hopefully you'll like it. I interview a lot of my friends who are going through that journey. From early stage founders like Anton, from lovable to scale ups like Parker, from Rippling to big companies like David Solomon from Goldman Sachs. Hope you enjoy it. I'll see you on the other side.